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Cairo discovers blood circulation going to and from the lungs.
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William Harvey publishes his book on circulation and how the blood is circulated and the heart pumps it through the body.
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Jan Swammerdam is able to see red blood cells. He is considered the first person to have done this.
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Marcello Malpighi is believed to be the first person to see capillary system. He uses the rudimentary microscope to view the time vessels that connects veins and arteries.
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The first recorded blood transfusion of animals is performed by Richard Lower who uses a syringe made of goose parts and he tests on dogs.
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Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denis transuses nine ounces of lambs blood into a teenage boy who suffers from a fever. He does this by connecting the carotid artery with male's vein in his forearm and the boy didn't die.
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William Hewson is a british anatomist who describes his research on blood coagulation and arresting blood clots. He also manages to isolates a substance from plasma.
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A British obstetrician and physiologist James Blundell uses a syringe to perfrom the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion on a patient with internal bleeding. The patient passed away after showing some signs of getting better.
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Sir William Osler looked into the bone marrow and saw little cell fragments that we call platelets.
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Karl Landsteiner, an Aussie physician, pulishes a paper on his discovery of 3 main blood types. He writes how he's come to discover this and how they are diiferent which is really confusing.
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Colleagues of Dr. Landsteiner, Alfred von Decastello and Adrian Sturli discovered a fourth blood type they called AB.
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Dr Ludvig Hektoen is the first recorded person to propose that they cross match before doing transfusions.
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Dr Reuben Ottenberg is the first recorded person to do a cross matching of blood before transfusion. This practice was continued and had such a high success rate that it virtually eliminated transfusion reactions.
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Almost at the same time Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover how to keep the blood from clotting by adding sodium cirate.
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Dr. Richard Weil makes an amazing discovery when he finds that citrated blood can be refrigerated for a few days and still be successfully transfused into a person's body.
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At the Rockefeller Institute Frances Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner created a way to store blood for weeks with it still being able to be successfully transfused. They created a cirate-glucose solution.
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The first blood depot is created by Dr. Oswald Robertson during WWI when casualties were many. He does this by storing type O blood using the solution created by Rous and Turner.
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Soviets are the first to have hospitals that store blood that is used in transfusions.
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Edwin Coln creates a more durable plasma from proteins, chemicals, and such.
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The first people to be treated with albumin are Pearl Harbor victims and they are treated by Dr. Isidor Ravdin. He figured out that albumin works to increase blood volume.
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Their first meeting was in November and was created by Red Cross.
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It is called GRIDS because it was more common in gay males. It was renamed as "Acquired Immunodeficiency".
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Luc Montagnier finds the virus in a swollen lymph node in the neck of a Parisian patient. They then label the virus a lymphadenopathy-associated virus or LAV.
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The ELISA test is licensed in the U.S. after dozens of Americans become infected with AIDs through transfusions, The ELISA test is designed to detect AIDs in a donor's blood and is used by blood banks and plasma centers.
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More sensitive tests are developed to see more broadly. They are made to show more blood diseases than just AIDs.